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2016 YA Character Book Tag

I am back. Sort of. Look, I swear I'm working on proper posts.
Really. It's happening. Really. I’m most of the way through one post that’s all
about how to begin a novel, so watch out for that one. Also, I have a lot of
feelings about Rogue One, so a review involving a lot of emotions and flailing
will be coming your way at some point.

But, since I promised to be back in December and it is now....January.
*hides because I'm bad at deadlines*.

Me, to be honest.

Whoops. Anyways, since I promised to be
back, I decided I should get something up before I start all the stuff I have
planned for this year. And I stumbled across this tag, over on Paper Fury, which is basically that I answer a
bunch of questions about the characters in the books I've read in 2016.
Which...I'm...pretty sure I remember the books I read this year. I....think....

Did I steal this tag? Yes. Yes, I did. I swear she said we could. Also,
I’m late. But…we’re only a few days into 2017, consider it a slightly late
wrap-up post.

So, this should be fun! On we go!

1.MOST RELATABLE CHARACTER:

Hmmm, difficult, but I'm thinking
Juniper from The Defectives by
Burgandi Rakoska. I haven't talked about this book yet, have
I? Well, that's stupid, because this book is so good. It's about
disabled superheroes, what's better than that?

Nothing, basically, that's the answer I
was going for. I'll do a better review later, but right now let me talk about
Juniper. So, Juniper is the main protagonist and she begins the novel
immediately after suffering an accident that left her paralysed. Over the
course of the novel, she goes through a lot of...things as she learns to cope
with her new disability and it's emotional and difficult and I empathise so
much with it. Obviously, I'm not paralysed, so I can't empathise with that, but
I do have a chronic illness and I'm a part-time wheelchair user so there are a
lot of the stuff she goes through over the course of this novel that I heavily
relate to. There were a lot of moments where I was left just sitting there
thinking 'How did this author just see exactly how I feel?'.

So, yes. Juniper. Most relatable.

2. MOST PURE AND PRECIOUS ANIMAL COMPANION:

I’m just going to go with Fleetfoot
from the Throne of Glass series by
Sarah J. Maas. She’s really cute.

3. FIERCEST FIGHTER:

I’m going to go with Thorn from The Brotherband Chronicles by John
Flanagan. He’s awesome and he’s an amputee who has a cool prosthetic that he
also fights with. Also, he’s a sass-master.

Thorn, basically.

4. MOST AMAZING SIDEKICK:

Blitz and Hearth from Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by
Rick Riordan. Okay, so I was slightly late reading this book, so sue me. But my
point still stands. I love Blitz and Hearth. You cannot make me choose between
them.

5. ONE YOU’RE SURPRISED YOU LOVED:

I did not
expect to like Eadlyn from The Heir by
Kiera Cass as much as I did. I kept hearing about how annoying she was, but I
actually quite liked her. She was flawed, but I like flawed characters.

6. BEST SASSMASTER:

Jackaby from Jackaby by William Ritter is a beautiful sassmaster. I
love him.

7. BEST ANTI-HERO AND MORALLY GREY GRAPE:

Lev from Unwind by Neal Shusterman. He is my morally grey grape son. I love him so much.

Any of the parents from Unwind. I mean, seriously. They sell their kids to be literally
taken apart on the operating table. That’s just disgusting. And in Lev’s case
it’s even worse, because he was taught to believe that it was an honour. Ick.

10. TRULY ASTOUNDING BEST YA PARENTS:

Mo from Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is awesome. He’s a bookbinder and he
loves books and he loves his daughter so much. I just…ugh. I love him a lot. He’s
great.

11. TOOT TOOT BEST SHIP OF THEM ALL:

I still ship
Kady and Ezra with all of my heart.

12. THE MOST IN NEED OF PROTECTION:

Look, all I
need in life is for Cress from The Lunar
Chronicles to be happy. Literally. This is the only thing I need. Ideally
with Captain Thorne.

13. MOST BORING AS A BARNACLE:

I don’t actually
tend to find characters boring, but if I had to choose.... Well, I’m going to
break the rules here a bit and go for a classic. Most of the cast of Hard Times by Charles Dickens were
fairly boring. I didn’t really dislike
the book, but yeah, there wasn’t much investment with the characters.

14. BEST LITTLE ROYAL:

Prince Cedric from The Marked Girl by Lindsey Klingele. He was super cool.

15. VERY SURPRISED YOU’RE STILL ALIVE:

Anyonefrom Illuminae. I’ve talked before about the impressive amount of death
in this book. And….yeah, it’s still pretty impressive.

The authors of Illuminae, basically.

16. BEST AT HORRIBLE DECISION MAKING:

Darrow from Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I haven’t
finished it yet, but so far, yes. He is the king of bad decisions.

17. CUTEST DORK:

Ingvar from The Brotherband Chronicles. My
kind-hearted, short-sighted son. I like him a lot.

18. CLEVEREST LITTLE HELLION:

AIDAN from Illuminae. The sociopathic murderous
computer. Yes, I love him. And I also empathise way too much with him.

19. MOST IN NEED OF A NAP:

Magnus Chase
from the appropriately named Magnus Chase
and the Sword of Summer. He really needs
a nap. Even though he dies. Sorta.

20. WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT YOU:

I would read anything
about the Pirates from The Pirates in an
Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe. Which reminds me, I should get
some of the other books.

Well, that’s
it for today, guys. I’m going to try and get a post up every Wednesday, so we’ll
see how that goes. Make sure to check out Paper Fury, her blog is awesome.

Ahh I love this!! And so much Magnus Chase appreciation which I THOROUGHLY APPROVE OF. (And yes he does need a nap.)😂 Also eeep totally agree about the Unwind parents. That book basically destroyed me omg who would want parents like that. (I need to finish reading that series though!)AND YES FLEETFOOT IS PRECIOUS.Thanks for doing the tag!! :D

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Hi, I'm Esther and I'm a writer. I enjoy hot chocolate, reading and hiding away from human contact. I'm basically a hermit. At the moment, I have several novels on the go, but my main one is Asteria, a science-fiction novel set in space. I write posts for my blog with no consistency whatsoever. I also like to pretend I'm smart, when I'm really not.

I'm a fan of both Marvel and DC, but must admit to preferring DC a little bit more. I also enjoy reading a whole bunch. My favourite books, currently, are The Book Thief and Strange the Dreamer. I tend to go for quite dark books and I tend to write quite dark books, so everything works out well.

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